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The family of a mother and her 13-month-old baby that were shot in an apparent carjacking in Gary, Indiana — the mother is on life support, and the baby was killed — are saying that it was not a random carjacking at all, but rather stemmed from a personal dispute:

Samuel Shaw said his daughter moved in with him after someone threatened to kill her and the baby.

Josiah Shaw was a “miracle baby” who was born without a heartbeat but had since thrived, his grandfather said. His name came from the Bible, and the boy liked to listen to his grandfather read from Scripture. His mother, the younger of two children, is a “really sweet person” planning to become a teacher in the Gary school district, Shaw said.

Gary police on Wednesday released two 911 calls, one from Kwana Shaw’s best friend.

“Somebody just stole my best friend’s truck with her baby in it. I think he shot her,” the friend told the 911 dispatcher. “Oh my god, her baby’s in the car,” the friend said. “Please hurry up.”

If it’s not bad enough to have your car stolen, but to have your baby shot by the thieves is unfathomable.

I don’t understand it. Take the car, take all of ones belongings — the baby wasn’t going to identify these hoodlums. Why hurt and murder an innocent little baby?

A 13-month-old boy was shot and killed and his mother was wounded during an apparent carjacking Monday night in Gary, officials said.

The shooting was reported around 7:35 p.m. in the 500 block of West 21st Avenue, but it was unclear whether that was where the original carjacking took place, officials with the Lake County coroner’s office said early Tuesday morning.

Josiah T. Shaw, who lived in the 5800 block of Forest Court in Gary, was taken from the red sport-utility vehicle to Gary Methodist Hospital where he died of gunshot wounds to the chin and left pelvic area, according to the coroner’s office.